Wichita eagle., 1887-09-11
SEDGWICK LEADS.
Assessed Valuation of Property in the
County ST 5,678, 116.

SEDGWICK LEADS.
Assessed Valuation of Property in tn
County $15,678,116.
!: The following statistics are taken fron
the annual report of the state board o
Equalization just published, from which
will be seen that Sedgwick county head
he list in the matter of assessed valuation
of property.
Assessments of property are made b,
township trustees and city assessors to thu
county boards of the several counties, an(
equalized by them. Tabular statement
for each county are then forwarded to thu
state board of equalization by the county
clerks. The state board, under the law
has no authority to increase or decrease the
aggregate valuation of the property thu
ret urned. 1t can increase or decrease
the valuation of any county, but If it In
creases the valuation Of one county 1t must
| reduce the valuations in other counties 8
like amount.
| Assessments of real estate are made
every two years, but personal property
assessments are made annually. Improve.
ments made during the year may, however,
be added to real estate valuations. The
real estate assessment was made il 1886,
and the figures for 1887 remain substan.
tally the same as for 1886. We shall,
therefore, In the comparisons made below,
contrast the figures Of 1885 and 1887. The
personal property assessments for 1886,
however, aggregated SIS, 491, TO, while
those for 1887 aggregate $50, 796, 746-an
increase during the year of $500, 969.
In 1885 the taxable lands under cultiva-
ton aggregated 10,139,859 acres, and
the taxable lands not under cult
walton, 19,647,7sS acres, making a
total of 29,7s7,647 acres. For
1887, the taxable lands under cultivation
segregated II, 1892, 211 acres, and those not
under cultivation aggregated 25,021, 1873
a ores, making total of 36,913.344 acres.
Increase In taxable average during two
years, 1895, 697 acres.
The aggregate value of all lands taxable
In 1885 was 1922, S71 1929, while for 1887
the value of the lands taxable was 1852, 2OO,.
666. Increase In assessed value during
two years, $29, 1923, 1927.
The improved town lots in 1885, num-
bered 96,182, and the unimproved town
lots 1888, 275. A total of 434. 457. For 1887
the improved town lots numbered 133, 1897,
and the unimproved town lots 545, Asa
total of 679.1S2 Increase in two years
pa, 725.
The aggregate assessed value of town
lots, in 1885, was $3S, 400, sol; 1887 it ag-
gregated $50, 646,s73, Increase in assessed
value of town lots during two years, was
S1S,226,572.
The average assessed value of lands, per
acre, in 1885, was s. 10; for 1887 it was
$4.12-a decrease of one cent per acre.
The average assessed value of town lots
for 1885, was $eS,43; for 1887, it was
$92 AZ. 1t is evident, from the figures,
that town lots are assessed much higher, in
p roportion to real value, than are the
lands of the state.
The valuation of the personal property
of Kansas, as assessed for 1885, aggregated
$50, 500, 1873; for 1871 aggregated $780,
1916, 746,-an increase. during two years, of
$4,294, 613.
The assessed value of the railway prop
erty of the state, for 1886, was $50, 1863, III;
for 1887 it aggregated Sal, 222, sos. In
creased in two years, $40, s54, 7ss.
The total valuation of all property, for
1885, was $24s, SAG, 81; for 1887 it aggre-
gatad S62, O24 ,635.
The state board increased the valuations,
as returned by the county clerks, to forty
one counties, and decreased the valuations |
so re turned in nineteen counties, the ag-
greg ate increase and decrease being &c.
27S, 545. so.
Only seventeen counties make returns
sggregating less than one million dol
lars
Sedgwick county heads the list,
$50, 67S, 116, which was reduced
by the state board to So, 2S2, 151. Shaw
nee county ranks next, with taxable prop
erty aggregating ST., 927,647. Leaven-
W orth has $9,434,75 Sumner returns
81 ,S22, 692; Lyon, 1888, 9O3; Cowley,
Sc, 254, $50; Atchison, $6,04S, 213; Bour-
bon, S., ,374; Butler, S., S31, 500; Wyan-
lotte, 5000, $50; and Douglas, s., 431 ,977.
These are the counties in the state-eleven
IN all-that have property assessed
1t over five million dollars each Seven
zen other counties have property
at over four millions, and eighteen
others each report over two millions.
The increase In value is very large. 1t
IS not probable that the assessed values of |
are more than one-third of the
real cash values, and probably they do not
exceed one-fourth of the true values. The
taxable wealth of Kansas may, therefore,
be fairly estimated at from $500, OOO, 900 to
81, 240, 900, 900. And as the population of
he state is now about / 900, 0O0 the wealth
Of Kansas aversges from 1851 to $175 per
capita.
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